Storyline
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
Released
21 June 1971
Runtime
2h 41min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
Russian
Production
Mosfilm
Cast
Archil Gomiashvili
Остап Бендер
Sergei Filippov
Киса Воробьянинов
Mikhail Pugovkin
Отец Фёдор
Nina Grebeshkova
Мусик / Царица Тамара
Yuriy Nikulin
дворник Тихон
Natalya Krachkovskaya
мадам Грицацуева
Natalya Varley
Лиза
Igor Yasulovich
инжинер Щукин
Georgiy Vitsin
монтёр Мечников
Savely Kramarov
председатель шахматного клуба
Klara Rumyanova
попадья
Leonid Gaidai
Коробейников
Ivan Zhevago
редактор газеты «Станок»
Natalya Vorobyova
Эллочка Щукина
Vladimir Kuznetsov
шахматист (uncredited)
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